Category: Shortlist

The year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining speculative fiction, sponsored by Blackwell’s who have set up a dedicated page full of tentacles just for us. In a ceremony at the Star of Kings pub in London the winners…

The year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining science fiction, sponsored by Blackwell’s who have set up a dedicated page full of tentacles just for us. Every year brings challenges, excitement, and something new: this year was no…

Adam Roberts, in typical overachieving fashion, managed to read enough books to populate a full and complete shortlist. Adam Roberts No Kitschies were awarded last year. 2016 was a Kitschless year—for one year only it was Nitch on the…

We at Tentacle HQ are very, very sad that we didn’t get to run the award last year – I mean, there are upsides, like not having to explain to house/office-mates that the 200ish books that one has built furniture…

Some data for the spreadsheet-and-538-loving people amongst you. We had a massive 198 submissions, made bearable only by the extreme reading speed of the judges. Seriously, big hats off to all five: Frances Hardinge, Adam Roberts, Cat Webb (AKA Claire…